The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it

IntroductionWellbeing policy analysis is often criticized for requiring a cardinal interpretation of measurement scales, such as ranking happiness on an integer scale from 0-10. The commonly-used scales also implicitly constrain the human capacity for experience, typically that our most intense expe...

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Main Authors: Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, Chris Percy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127221/full